TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has
nominated a film by the country’s Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi for the
next Academy Awards.

A Saturday report by Farabi Foundation, affiliated to Iran's Culture
Ministry, said 'The
Salesman', Asghar Farhadi's seventh feature, which won two prizes
at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was chosen as Iran's nominee for the event,
AP wrote.

The movie is
about a pair of actors rehearsing for a performance of Arthur Miller's 'Death of
a Salesman'. The couple's lives are upended when the woman is mistaken for a
prostitute and sexually assaulted.

Amir Esfandiari, a spokesperson of the board, announced that
the body had chosen five films out of eight candidates from which
'The Salesman' was selected
as Iran's ultimate Oscars representative.

Hailing the collaboration extended by Iran's House of Cinema, Farabi Cinema
Foundation, and Ministry of Culture's Cinema Organization, Esfandiari hoped that
the film could portray the capacity of the Iranian cinema properly in this
international venue.